How Many Reports Does it Take?

[Moonlite]

Also SE has a very solid policy of let crimes continue for a long period of time and then punish (if at all). When Ixal dailies were added the Balmung reported these bots for months and months multiple people. If multiple reports crossed the system daily why would they not check? I have seen GMs in other games come out and check send a message "Hey what you up to?" "Draining my soul to farm X coins" "Drop rates a little rough have fun" Or in 11 "We just moved you a bit to see if you were botting" "No, but I bet those other 5 guys aren't going to respond or move"

I am sure everyone has seen the bots/cheaters. They have also grown in greater numbers. Nothing like seeing a whole FC of bots covering 3/4s of every timed node in SB. Also usually have 1 or 2 in pvp. They are still very active. That is just the regular cheaters we see, imagine the position hack players we don't even notice.

[Joe777]

The better question is: When will reporting RMT activity actually impact those damn advertisers when enough players use it on them?

[KageTokage]

The better question is: When will reporting RMT activity actually impact those damn advertisers when enough players use it on them?

When they start going after the accounts they actually keep the gil on instead of their expendable spammers, farmers, and traders (AKA, the accounts that finalize transactions with the players who actually buy the gil).

I've noticed the gil farming bots buying things at the market board and I'd assume that's how they transfer their money to the "bank" account, as opposed to trading/mailing money to them directly.

[Silver-Strider]

Honestly, I've stopped reporting anything short of verbal abuse of the highest level.

Mentors berating someone, especially a sprout, to an extent that it's just borderline abusive.
People being outright racist, sexist, etc. (It only happened the 1 time but it was so extreme that it would have been a crime to not report it).

Stuff like that I report.

[SuperZay]

In some rare cases we have vote dismissed a number of players (like for pulling extra mobs ahead of tank when we said don't to), and if they were on the same server they PM us telling they have reported us. However GMs have never contacted any of us and we have no warnings. It seems like reports are ignored if there is no verbal abuse, and anything else is covered by gameplay style differences.
Cheating reports are largerly ignored and bots are rampaging for years, unless they are RMT bots which are banned in waves.